Metal/Hardcore Review – Page 77

Ramesses – We Will Lead You to Glorious Times – Review

June 13, 2005

Quality, murderous blackened grind-singed doom from this power trio. Couple guys from Electric Wizard, includes four tracks remastered by Billy Anderson.

Soilwork – Stabbing The Drama – Review

June 13, 2005

Comparisons with In Flames are inevitable, but there’s a consistency here that makes Soilwork more cohesive: Soilwork’s vocalist isn’t weird.

Sentenced – The Funeral Album – Review

June 13, 2005

The Funeral Album is their last. The band’s hoary, bed-headed dirty rock sound is thankfully intact on “just another amusing Sentenced album.”

Scum of the Earth – Blah Blah Blah Love Songs for the New Millennium – Review

June 13, 2005

Ex-Rob Zombie guitarist Rigg’s band. It’s everything you hope it’ll be. It’s everything you fear it’ll be: Loud, gaudy, theatrical, industrial-tinged metal.

Samael – Reign of Light – Review

June 13, 2005

This collective (Kovenant, Satyricon, Sentenced, Amorphis, Nile, Lake of Tears) play clubby, mechanistic, Rammstein, er, disco metal, but they’re evil about it.

Mudvayne – Lost And Found – Review

June 13, 2005

Less exotic and more regular rockin’. With Slipknot, Mudvayne are survivors in nü metal, this record entering the Billboard charts at an astounding #2.

Mercenary – 11 Dreams – Review

June 13, 2005

Filled with majesty and sorrow, 11 Dreams displays a depth and variety rarely seen today. Like Opeth and Into Eternity, Mercenary eschew conventional genres.

Leaves’ Eyes – Elegy – Review

June 13, 2005

A six-song mini-CD following last Fall’s Lovelorn, and a teaser for this summer’s Vinland Saga. Anyone into Evanescence or Lacuna Coil oughtta dig this.

Kill Your Idols – From Companionship to Competition – Review

June 13, 2005

Kill Your Idols are the real thing. They sound like it, smell like it, and live like it. You can almost feel the street smarts ooze from their music.

Jesu – Review

June 13, 2005

Ex-Godflesh mastermind Justin Broadrick’s first “real” outfit since the demise of the Giant G, Jesu promises to fuse ethereal ambience with crushing doom noise.